AFRICA: Hundreds of people gathered in the DR Congo’s capital Kinshasa, defying a ban on protests against President Joseph Kabila’s plans to stay in office past the end of his term.

AMERICAS: French FM Jean-Marc Ayrault’s visited Haiti to express France’s solidarity with its former colony in the wake of Hurricane Matthew.

ASIA: India’s top counter-terrorism agency charged Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed with perpetrating a deadly attack on an Indian air force base in JAN2016.

EUROPE: Top officials from NATO and Russia gathered behind closed doors for a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council in Brussels.

MIDDLE EAST: A fragile cease-fire was back on in Syria, as buses resumed evacuating those still remaining in eastern Aleppo following days of delays.

TECHNOLOGY: US lawmakers called for a special bipartisan panel to investigate cyberattacks against the US by foreign countries with a focus on Russia’s alleged efforts to influence the US presidential election.

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Syria: Ceasefire and evacuations resume as UN to vote on monitors.

A fragile cease-fire was back on in the country, as buses resumed evacuating those still remaining in eastern Aleppo following days of delays.

Thousands of people were evacuated from what remained of the smashed rebel enclave in the Syrian city of Aleppo as the UN Security Council prepared a vote to send monitors to watch the routes.

Among the people waiting to leave eastern Aleppo are sick and wounded children, UNICEF said, as some children have been forced to leave without their parents.

Russia, Iran and Turkey will hold talks in Moscow on DEC20 aimed at giving fresh impetus for a solution in Aleppo.

Recapturing the whole of Aleppo would be Syrian President Bashar Assad’s biggest victory in the nearly 6-year-old civil war.

Lebanon: The US has delivered a new Cessna aircraft to the nation’s army to help the country fight militancy and conduct border security missions. (AP)

TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATIONS

Technology: US lawmakers called for a special bipartisan panel to investigate cyberattacks against the US by foreign countries with a focus on Russia’s alleged efforts to influence the US presidential election. (Reuters)

WORLD

Cyclones: Nothing to Report

Hurricanes: Nothing to Report

Earthquakes: Nothing to Report

Volcanoes: Colima, Mexico

Three eruptions spewed ash and vapor two kilometers into the air. (Reuters)